Author : Porphyre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:661934426
Against the Christians
Porphyre
Porphyry S Against The Christians
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Porphyry in Fragments
Ariane Magny
Author : Ariane Magny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317077794
Porphyry in Fragments by Ariane Magny Pdf
The Greek philosopher Porphyry of Tyre had a reputation as the fiercest critic of Christianity. It was well-deserved: he composed (at the end the 3rd century A.D.) fifteen discourses against the Christians, so offensive that Christian emperors ordered them to be burnt. We thus rely on the testimonies of three prominent Christian writers to know what Porphyry wrote. Scholars have long thought that we could rely on those testimonies to know Porphyry's ideas. Exploring early religious debates which still resonate today, Porphyry in Fragments argues instead that Porphyry's actual thoughts became mixed with the thoughts of the Christians who preserved his ideas, as well as those of other Christian opponents.
Porphyry's Against the Christians
R. Joseph Hoffman
Author : R. Joseph Hoffman
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781615922000
Porphyry's Against the Christians by R. Joseph Hoffman Pdf
Prominent among the pagan critics of the early Christians was Porphyry of Trre (ca. 232-305), scholar, philosopher, and student of religions. His Against the Christians, condemned to be burned in 448, was a work of admirable historical criticism. The surviving fragments of this work, newly translated by Biblical scholar Hoffmann, present Porphyry's most trenchant comments on key figures, beliefs, and doctrines of Christianity.
Porphyry Against the Christians
Robert Berchman
Author : Robert Berchman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789047415725
Porphyry Against the Christians by Robert Berchman Pdf
Porphyry's Against the Christians offers an important example of Hellenic Biblical criticism and a critique of Christianity at the close of Late Antiquity, fl. 300 C.E.
Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre
Aaron P. Johnson
Author : Aaron P. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107012738
Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre by Aaron P. Johnson Pdf
Examines Porphyry of Tyre's critical engagement with Hellenism in late antiquity, emphasizing philosophical translation as the key to his thought.
Universal Salvation in Late Antiquity
Michael Bland Simmons
Author : Michael Bland Simmons
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Late Antiqui
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190202392
Universal Salvation in Late Antiquity by Michael Bland Simmons Pdf
This study offers an in-depth examination of Porphyrian soteriology, or the concept of the salvation of the soul, in the thought of Porphyry of Tyre, whose significance for late antique thought is immense. Porphyry's concept of salvation is important for an understanding of those cataclysmic forces, not always theological, that helped convert the Roman Empire from paganism to Christianity. Porphyry, a disciple of Plotinus, was the last and greatest anti-Christian writer to vehemently attack the Church before the Constantinian revolution. His contribution to the pagan-Christian debate on universalism can thus shed light on the failure of paganism and the triumph of Christianity in late antiquity. In a broader historical and cultural context this study will address some of the issues central to the debate on universalism, in which Porphyry was passionately involved and which was becoming increasingly significant during the unprecedented series of economic, cultural, political, and military crises of the third century. As the author will argue, Porphyry may have failed to find one way of salvation for all humanity, he nonetheless arrived a hierarchical soteriology, something natural for a Neoplatonist, which resulted in an integrative religious and philosophical system. His system is examined in the context of other developing ideologies of universalism, during a period of unprecedented imperial crises, which were used by the emperors as an agent of political and religious unification. Christianity finally triumphed over its competitors owing to its being perceived to be the only universal salvation cult that was capable of bringing about this unification. In short, it won due to its unique universalist soteriology. By examining a rival to Christianity's concept of universal salvation, this book will be valuable to students and scholars of ancient philosophy, patristics, church history, and late antiquity.
The Christians as the Romans Saw Them
Robert Louis Wilken
Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300098391
The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert Louis Wilken Pdf
This book offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans.
Augustine and Porphyry
David C. DeMarco
Author : David C. DeMarco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3506760556
Augustine and Porphyry by David C. DeMarco Pdf
Against the Galilaeans
Juilan the Apostate
Author : Juilan the Apostate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1915645190
Against the Galilaeans by Juilan the Apostate Pdf
Against the Galileans (where "Galileans" meant the followers of the man from Galilee, or Christians) was written by the last pagan Emperor of Rome, Flavius Claudius Julianus, who lived from 331-363 AD, as part of his attempts to reverse the Empire's conversion to Christianity started by Emperor Constantine in 313 AD. This work was acknowledged by one of Julian's greatest critics, Cyril, the Patriarch of Alexandria, as one of the most powerful books of its sort ever written. Even though Cyril was Patriarch nearly 90 years after Julian's death, he was motivated to write a refutation titled Contra Iulianum ("Against Julian"). For more than 200 years, Julian's book remained the standard criticism of Christianity. Finally, in an attempt to suppress the work, the Emperor Justinian I (527-565) ordered all copies of the book destroyed. As a result, the only record of Julian's book remained in the parts quoted from in it in Cyril's criticism. It was only more than 1,200 years later that the English classical scholar Thomas Taylor (1758-1835) first translated Cyril's work into English-and from that, attempted a reconstruction of Julian's book based on Julian's quotes from Cyril's work. Taylor titled this manuscript "The Arguments of the Emperor Julian against the Christians, translated from the Greek fragments preserved from the Greek fragments preserved by Cyril Bishop of Alexandria, to which are added, Extracts from the other works of Julian relative to the Christians" and privately published his reconstruction in 1809 for a very limited circle of friends. Taylor's reconstruction was finally published for a larger audience by William Nevis in 1873. This new edition contains the full Taylor reconstruction, along with his original appendices. From 1913 to 1923, British-American classical philologist and Professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, Wilmer Cave Wright, retranslated all of Julian's works. Wright included a new translation of the exact quotes only from Julian, as reproduced by Cyril, and some other remaining fragments. Wright's original manuscript is also included in this new edition, making it to be the most complete reconstruction of Julian's book ever printed.
Porphyry on Abstinence from Animal Food
Porphyry
Author : Porphyry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Animal sacrifice
ISBN : UOM:39076006562180
Porphyry on Abstinence from Animal Food by Porphyry Pdf
Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry, and the Emperor Julian, Against the Christians
Cornelius Tacitus,Flavius Josephus,Emperor of Rome Julian,Siculus Diodorus,Porphyry,active 180 Celsus
Author : Cornelius Tacitus,Flavius Josephus,Emperor of Rome Julian,Siculus Diodorus,Porphyry,active 180 Celsus
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547715634
Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry, and the Emperor Julian, Against the Christians by Cornelius Tacitus,Flavius Josephus,Emperor of Rome Julian,Siculus Diodorus,Porphyry,active 180 Celsus Pdf
Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry and the Emperor Julian Against the Christians is a series of essays by Flavius Josephus. They cover criticism of Christianity by people who lived during the days of Early Christianity.
Against the Christians: Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry and the Emperor Julian
Thomas Taylor,Flavius Josephus,Porphyry,Tacitus,Diodorus of Sicily,Celsus,Emperor Julian
Author : Thomas Taylor,Flavius Josephus,Porphyry,Tacitus,Diodorus of Sicily,Celsus,Emperor Julian
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:8596547775881
Against the Christians: Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry and the Emperor Julian by Thomas Taylor,Flavius Josephus,Porphyry,Tacitus,Diodorus of Sicily,Celsus,Emperor Julian Pdf
Against the Christians is a literary critique of Christianity. Its incisive remarks extend to key figures, philosophies, and dogmas. The divinity of Jesus is questioned, as is the truthfulness of the apostles and the Christian concept of God on a larger scale. It rejects the gospels as the work of frauds who attributed their own writings to late disciples of Jesus.
Aristotle and Early Christian Thought
Mark Edwards
Author : Mark Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781315520193
Aristotle and Early Christian Thought by Mark Edwards Pdf
In studies of early Christian thought, ‘philosophy’ is often a synonym for ‘Platonism’, or at most for ‘Platonism and Stoicism’. Nevertheless, it was Aristotle who, from the sixth century AD to the Italian Renaissance, was the dominant Greek voice in Christian, Muslim and Jewish philosophy. Aristotle and Early Christian Thought is the first book in English to give a synoptic account of the slow appropriation of Aristotelian thought in the Christian world from the second to the sixth century. Concentrating on the great theological topics – creation, the soul, the Trinity, and Christology – it makes full use of modern scholarship on the Peripatetic tradition after Aristotle, explaining the significance of Neoplatonism as a mediator of Aristotelian logic. While stressing the fidelity of Christian thinkers to biblical presuppositions which were not shared by the Greek schools, it also describes their attempts to overcome the pagan objections to biblical teachings by a consistent use of Aristotelian principles, and it follows their application of these principles to matters which lay outside the purview of Aristotle himself. This volume offers a valuable study not only for students of Christian theology in its formative years, but also for anyone seeking an introduction to the thought of Aristotle and its developments in Late Antiquity.
Porphyry in Fragments
Ariane Magny
Author : Ariane Magny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317077800
Porphyry in Fragments by Ariane Magny Pdf
The Greek philosopher Porphyry of Tyre had a reputation as the fiercest critic of Christianity. It was well-deserved: he composed (at the end the 3rd century A.D.) fifteen discourses against the Christians, so offensive that Christian emperors ordered them to be burnt. We thus rely on the testimonies of three prominent Christian writers to know what Porphyry wrote. Scholars have long thought that we could rely on those testimonies to know Porphyry's ideas. Exploring early religious debates which still resonate today, Porphyry in Fragments argues instead that Porphyry's actual thoughts became mixed with the thoughts of the Christians who preserved his ideas, as well as those of other Christian opponents.
Arguments Against the Christians: Celsus, Porphyry and the Emperor Julian
Diodorus of Sicily,Flavius Josephus,Tacitus,Celsus,Emperor Julian,Porphyry,Thomas Taylor
Author : Diodorus of Sicily,Flavius Josephus,Tacitus,Celsus,Emperor Julian,Porphyry,Thomas Taylor
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:4064066393854
Arguments Against the Christians: Celsus, Porphyry and the Emperor Julian by Diodorus of Sicily,Flavius Josephus,Tacitus,Celsus,Emperor Julian,Porphyry,Thomas Taylor Pdf
Arguments Against the Christians is a literary critique of Christianity. Its incisive remarks extend to key figures, philosophies, and dogmas. The divinity of Jesus is questioned, as is the truthfulness of the apostles and the Christian concept of God on a larger scale. It rejects the gospels as the work of frauds who attributed their own writings to late disciples of Jesus.
